Should i get

[FATAZIAN]

Should i get a i5 4690k or a intel xeon E3-1231 v3?

[Castdeath97]

What are you going to use it for?

[EPPHO]

What are you going to use it for and what motherboard and cooling do you have?

[FATAZIAN]

Just now, frozeNNN said:

What are you going to use it for and what motherboard and cooling do you have?

For games and i have a asus h81m-a and stock cpu cooler

[EPPHO]

Just now, FATAZIAN said:

For games and i have a asus h81m-a and stock cpu cooler

i5 is better for gaming but at the same time you are going to buy unlocked cpu for a motherboard that can't overclock so yeah it's kinda strange..

[FATAZIAN]

2 minutes ago, frozeNNN said:

i5 is better for gaming but at the same time you are going to buy unlocked cpu for a motherboard that can't overclock so yeah it's kinda strange..

thanks for helping me decide, but i dont think im going to overclock because i dont know how

[EPPHO]

Just now, wrathoftheturkey said:

Proof? Or just the "Xeons are worse for gaming" myth?

Xeons have worse single core performance which basically means they are worse than i5s (better single core performance means better for gaming)

[EPPHO]

2 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

Not all of them. This only applies to those 12-core behemoths, which have much worse single core performance. But in this case, they're based off of the same architecture, and although the 1231 has a MARGINALLY lower clockspeed (.1 GHz) it makes up for that in hyperthreading, and so should perform quite a bit better (on par with an i7) in most games.

okay